logixoul wrote:

Why was this bug marked Invalid?

1. no way to implement it without totally rearranging

the entire database structure

2. no reason to want such a thing

logixoul wrote:

1. Isn't it as simple as checking whether the contents of a section

are changed after each edit? I'm probably being naive, no need to
explain if it'd take up too much time.

2. There is a reason. Let's say I nominate a page for highlightning in

Wikipedia. Everytime anybody nominates anything or votes I get
notified in my watchlist. This is inconvenient since I care only about
my submission. And this is just an example.

A while ago Kate Turner implemented a cool feature which allows templates to be
treated like virtual sections. You can see it in action e.g. on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates where each
nomination is loaded from a separate template. Nevertheless, you can use section
editing to edit the individual nominations. You can also watch them separately.
If you have a page where you really want content to be stored and watchable
separately, I would suggest that you model it after this page.

logixoul wrote:

That's a good piece of advice, thanks. While I still think that
watching sections can be useful, I see the importance of the
difficulty of implementation that Brion Vibber noted.

• This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 738 ***